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In Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 06

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John Bright

The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offer…

Norway and the Vikings

In The National Geographic Magazine Vol. 05

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Magnus Andersen and National Geographic Society

National Geographic Magazine Volume 5, articles published in 1893. Contents:Discoverers of America: Annual Address by the President, Gardine…

A Discourse concerning some Influence of Respiration on the Motion of the Heart…

In Miscellanea Curiosa, Vol 1

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Edmond Halley

"The Royal Society is a Fellowship of many of the world's most eminent scientists and is the oldest scientific academy in continuous ex…

66 - Speech in the Irish Parliament - O'Connor

In The Columbian Orator

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Caleb Bingham

The Columbian Orator, a collection of political essays, poems, and dialogues first published in 1797, was widely used in American schoolroom…

The Onlooker

In The Rainbow and the Rose

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E. Nesbit

A collection of poetry in the whimsical style of Edith Nesbit, author of "The Five Children and It" and "The Railway Children…

''When the Hounds of Spring''

In Rainbow Gold: Poems Old and New Selected for Boys and Girls

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Algernon Charles Swinburne and Walter de la Mare

This collection of poems, selected by Sara Teasdale, a talented poet in her own right, is made to appeal to children, both girls and boys. T…

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